You can buy a CarPlay radio that's plug and play for the same or cheaper price. So this is clearly just for the hack value. Fun if you are after a hack project. Probably not worth it if you just want a CarPlay radio.
That's for an 8 GB Pi 5. It runs fine on the 2 GB Pi 5 that's $50 (or the 4GB for $60), which would bring it to $175, but if you want out of the box CarPlay the dedicated devices are still a better deal.
Good to know on the Pi 5. I'm not a Pi person, so I'm very ignorant.
It's nice that you can tinker for basically the same price as a dedicated device. That's not always true.
I agree tinkering is fun, I was not trying to put down tinkering. Mostly, I was curious how the cost compared to a dedicated device and wanted to share what 5m of curiosity found out.
I assume based on your name, you are the OP. Thanks for sharing your tinkering, it was an interesting read. I had no idea such a CarPlay adapter thing even existed. I'm very ignorant of CarPlay(I'm deaf, so it's useless tech for me).
You can buy a CarPlay radio that's plug and play for the same or cheaper price. So this is clearly just for the hack value. Fun if you are after a hack project. Probably not worth it if you just want a CarPlay radio.